Sword and the Script

MAY 25, 2021

Brands earn customer trust in business by protecting their data, offering a reasonable value, focusing on the quality of their product or service and delivering good customer experiences. Trust in business is a currency that brands can’t live without. 73% are willing to pay more for the product or service.

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Cision

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Nobody can deny that market share is a crucial metric for business success. When we marketers ignore it, we confuse shifts in industry demand with the results of our own actions. Still, market share obsession can also afflict us with a kind of tunnel vision. Leverage the “Underdog Effect”.

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Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Making up Metrics I was recently on a conference call with a respected nternational measurement organization and a new member of the group was explaining how she’d been pressured by her CEO to put a dollar value on her efforts. “So There should be a special place in measurement hell for people who make up bad metrics.

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5W PR

MARCH 2, 2020

Marketers who are successful in connecting with their target audiences would also attest to that, but is it happening? Content Marketing Institute recently weighed in on the matter by sharing results of its research of folks who work at B2B and B2C companies. Content Marketing. Why the contrast? Major Challenges.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

The flipside of earned media is owned media: publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, Medium publication, and the like. A subset of corporate communications work, developing, documenting, and disseminating overarching corporate messaging is key to building a strong brand with a consistent message.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 5, 2017

The report contains plenty of insight for anyone working in marketing or public relations. It’s fuelled by developing markets, notably India. In developing markets everyone that wants a phone has one. The ability to target and measure ad performance makes digital ads attractive to brands. Here are my highlights. #1

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Cision

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Influencer marketing continues to see enormous effectiveness with audiences. And while this advocate-driven strategy isn’t exactly a new trend in the wide world of marketing, it’s gaining more and more traction with PR professionals. Influencer marketing starts with purpose, explained Carrie during an InfluencePros podcast.

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Branding – a word that conjures mental images of the world’s most prominent products. With the rise of social media and the Internet, branding has become a vital and highly visible business facet, making it more important than ever for marketers and communication professionals to stay on top of brand management.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Once upon a time, businesses hopped on social channels to amp up their brand presence and chat with customers. So, it’s a no-brainer for e-commerce (aka ecommerce) brands to team up with social media to make those sales happen. Being on social media is the online pastime that everyone loves. In 2023, more than 4.89

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Prohibition

MARCH 21, 2024

Data collection and processing Like any other business strategy, social media marketing is most effective when your objectives are based on real data. Trends offer insight into public sentiment, consumer demographics, values and attitudes allowing brands to stay ahead of the curve.

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PR 20/20

JANUARY 16, 2023

O ur daily mantra as inbound marketers: stay focused, and be passionate. If like us, you’re always looking for new marketing resources, you’ve landed on the right blog post. If like us, you’re always looking for new marketing resources, you’ve landed on the right blog post. The Ready North RSS: Must-Reads for Marketers.

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Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

TLDR: Brands and customers can’t really be “friends” on social media. He talked about how brands do this kind of thing to, essentially, manipulate people into feeling guilty, hoping they’ll return the favor: “…it’s human nature to feel obligated when someone—even a company—does something for you.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 30, 2019

If you work in public relations or marketing—or in the business world generally—you have likely heard about several major developments in the media monitoring marketplace. When you are monitoring important media coverage—whether it’s a crisis or an especially impactful brand story—getting results quickly is absolutely critical.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 6, 2016

The smartest PR professionals help product or service companies identify their most powerful differentiators, shape a narrative, and tell their story where it counts. Breaking through with quality material will become more difficult as content marketing approaches a saturation point. Thought leadership isn’t just for B2B brands.

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PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A s marketers, a failed campaign is our worst nightmare. But sadly, failed marketing attempts happen every day and everywhere. So, how can teams pinpoint what went wrong and redirect marketing energy? The time is now to transform your marketing program. Some roles to consider on your marketing dream team : Content writer.

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NewsWhip

JUNE 14, 2023

Small Business “The predictive elements in NewsWhip are 10/10 – we know when our brand is mentioned, by whom, and how widely it’s likely to be shared on social. Anonymous User in Marketing and Advertising “Simple UI; easy to use.

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PR 20/20

JUNE 6, 2023

HubSpot started as a marketing automation platform in 2006, and users have experienced a treasure trove of growth since. The platform is now a comprehensive suite of tools and services to help businesses with their marketing, sales, customer service, and operations.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

There’s a misconception that marketing a business is always time-consuming. If you know where to put your efforts, it’s completely possible to handle the essential marketing tactics in five hours or less a week. You can also create email templates for common customer service inquiries, such as: Where’s my product?

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 5, 2015

Leah Fein-Roque , who specializes in tech PR and digital marketing understands the Snapchat appeal personally: “I have a 21, 19 and 16 year old using it mostly for everything including texting. As you can imagine, Snapchat measurement is not straightforward. Brand discovery (“Discovery”).

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Landis PR

MARCH 14, 2022

Five Key Steps to Introducing Your Consumer Brand to a New Social Media Platform. Having a social media strategy can boost your brand and expand your market, but that doesn’t all happen overnight. Being intentional with your social media strategy will give your brand its best chance at success.

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Cision

OCTOBER 24, 2015

Social media has become a centerpiece for brands’ reputations. Customer service departments have had to shift their strategies, while HR departments have started to turn employees into brand advocates. Now, your brand must think on a global scale. Measure their data as you would for your own social media accounts.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As new markets keep reaching out and needing PR representation, her team is ready to jump in. At Crenshaw, you work with a variety of brands and businesses. How can brands keep up? Smart brands constantly ask their audiences for input and feedback– via social media engagement (mandatory these days!)

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute's blog. The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20. Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype stage, but is it possible that its potential to transform marketing, and your career , is even greater than advertised?

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Cision

MAY 10, 2016

Your audience is accessing your brand story in new and different ways, and if you aren’t reaching them in the right way, they aren’t going to listen to you. Francis College, says transmedia storytelling is the path brands need to take. What do you think is the biggest challenge facing brands today? But what is the right way?

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Doctor Spin

APRIL 17, 2023

He argues that founders should not underestimate the power of compound growth and should measure their startup’s progress through weekly growth rates. Although growth eventually slows down, startups can transition from manual to less manual methods once they gain traction in the market. Ritz-Carlton. 2012, May 17).

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marketing conferences have shaped my top team memories. To share the knowledge wealth, below is my list of the 20 coolest marketing events in 2020 (coming to a venue somewhere in the U.S.). Social Media Marketing World. Discover the best social media marketing techniques from the world’s top experts.”. Tech industry.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 11, 2015

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Odds are that you’ve heard someone say that PR can’t be quantified, or social media ROI can’t be measured, or that a media impression or social post generated an advertising value equivalent (AVE) of hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars.

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Critical Mention

JULY 15, 2020

In continuing its commitment to 24/7/365 customer service, Critical Mention has also created a quick and simple way for users to submit requests for data updates to a support team that will update records within 24 hours in most cases. . About Critical Mention.

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Beyond PR

MAY 18, 2016

In marketing, every day is game day. Tackle the challenge of marketing’s ever-evolving playbook by building a team of valuable players. In the latest issue of Brand Quarterly magazine, PR Newswire’s Senior Vice President of Marketing Ken Wincko describes the type of marketers your brand needs.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 4, 2020

As such many of the PR tech vendors have brought features to the market for this purpose. The company says the product is a brand-new design and uses both automation and manual curation to build out and maintain accurate contacts. Talkwalker characterized the product as “social measurement and audience insights software.”

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Cision

MARCH 7, 2016

Brands, large and small, turn to a dedicated individual or team to take the social reins. Too many brands unknowingly set up structures that keep them from meeting their goals. These benchmarks should also refer back to the brand’s overall goals. Measure Results. Break Down Silos. Use the Hub-and-Spoke Model.

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5W PR

JUNE 15, 2020

Brands need to have a vibrant and active social media presence today. The latter includes direct, continual contact with fans and customers. The opportunity to engage, to solve problems, and to influence the narrative about and around the brand in the consumer public. That’s just a fact of doing business in the modern world.

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Here are 7 things I learned from the report: 1: Marketers need to get smarter about measuring success on IG stories. Even though 57% of marketers said Stories were very effective or somewhat effective, a whopping 35% said they were “uncertain” of overall effectiveness. Are you freaking kidding me? The worst part?

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PR 20/20

AUGUST 6, 2019

Editor’s Note: The Book Clubbin’ series recaps business and marketing related books read by the PR 20/20 team each quarter as part of the agency book club. Marketing is everywhere, whether you realize it or not. Although marketing has been around for ages, how have new consumer demands shifted the way we market?

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Polaris

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

According to the article, social analytics company Shareablee found engagement for US brands on Instagram more than doubled in the first quarter of this year versus the same period in 2014. Measurement Metrics for Social Influencer Programs on Instagram. Same goes for Instagram. It’s Not a Perfect Approach.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like nearly any other marketing or strategic discipline, public relations has changed in recent years. As communicators, we will be increasingly asked not only to create relationships and generate coverage for brands and organizations, but to build the kind of relationships that actually influence behavior, and do so in a transparent way.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 14, 2016

The face of a nearly brand new iPhone 6s looked like a spider web. In a third example, a vice president of sales for a business training consultancy said the “free talks” the company gives often is how his company acquires most customers. If you enjoyed this post, you might also like: Survey Finds Tough Grades on B2B Content Marketing.

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